Scanning

Advanced Academic Reading and Writing Skill. Lecture No. 4, Code

No. 1204

Dr Zafar Ullah, Assistant Professor in Linguistics

zafarullah76@gmail.com
 Scanning
★Scanning is reading a text quickly in
order to find specific information, e.g.
figures or names.
★A use ful reading strategy tof ind
answers

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Example

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 Steps
★Find your required term/ word or digit
★Observe how information is arranged
★Number of paragraphs/ pages
★Read headings where the required term
can be located
★Move your eyes swiftly to scan the page

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 Purposes
○ To search for a word in a dictionary
○ To find a phone number or an address in
a directory
○ To check the time schedule of a program
○ To check the price/ location of a specific
item in a catalog
○ To know a digit/ word from a text
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 Usage
★ IELTS
★Objective exams fill in blanks
★Search the exact word, name, shop
★Identify key term

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 Practice
★Take 1 article from eDawn or hard copy of any
English newspaper.
★Find digits

★Take an essay on the life of Quaid-e-Azam.

★Find his wife’s name/ his daughter’s name.
★Find his income
★Find his place of birth
★Find his school name
★Find his law college name
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